India: Breathe in, and hands off our yoga | csmonitor.com
I hate the title (because really the article isn't saying hands off "our" yoga; it's saying that traditional knowledges should be attributed to their source in India), but the content of this article is good news:
An online Traditional Knowledge Digital Library has been established so that others can't exploit traditional Indian knowledge as novel for patent and gain.
By documenting traditional Indian knowledge, many formulations would be regarded as "prior art," that is, previously existing knowledge about the applications of a product. Patent applications are usually rejected if there is prior art on the product.
You may visit the Traditional Knowledge Data Library at http://203.200.90.6/tkdl/langdefault/common/home.asp.
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